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Page 11 - Presents will and ordain that this Our Commission shall continue in full force and virtue, and that you, Our said Commissioners, or any three or more of you, may from time to time proceed in the execution thereof, and of every matter and thing therein contained, although the same be not continued from time to time by adjournment: And...

Page 16 - Provident Fund. Provident Annuities purchased by Ladies in any way connected with Education, upon Government security, agreeably to the Act of Parliament. This branch includes a Savings' Bank. A Home for Governesses during the intervals between their engagements. A System of Registration, entirely free of expense. An Asylum for the Aged. Membership consists in the payment of an Annual Guinea, or of Ten Guineas in one Sum.

Page 3 - ... we are living at a period of most wonderful transition, which tends rapidly to accomplish that great end to which indeed all history points — the realization of the unity of mankind ; not a unity which breaks down the limits and levels the peculiar characteristics of the different nations of the earth, but rather a unity the result and product...

Page 17 - SCOTT (Rev. Thomas) : A COMMENTARY ON THE BIBLE; containing the Old and New Testaments according to the Authorised Version, with Practical Observations, copious Marginal References, Indices, &c. In 3 vols., royal 410. Cloth, 63/- New Edition. TIMES (John, FSA, Author of "Things not Generally Known," &c.) : THOUGHTS FOR TIMES & SEASONS.

Page 4 - Gentlemen, the Exhibition of 1851 is to give us a true test and a living picture of the point of development at which the whole of mankind has arrived in this great task, and a new starting point from which all nations will be able to direct their further exertions.

Page 13 - Tables have been specially constructed for the ARMY, NAVY, EAST INDIA COMPANY, and MERCHANT SERVICES ; also for persons voyaging to, or residing in, any part of the world. ENDOWMENTS for Widows and Children, Pensions for retired Officers and Civilians, IMMEDIATE or DEFERRED ANNUITIES, and every other description of Life Contingency undertaken upon equitable terms.

Page 16 - The objects of this Society are — Temporary Assistance to Governesses in distress, afforded privately and delicately, through the Ladies' Committee. Annuity Fund. Elective Annuities to Aged Governesses, secured on invested capital, and thus independent of the prosperity of the Institution. Provident Fund. Provident Annuities purchased by Ladies in any way connected with Education, upon Government Security, agreeably to the Act of Parliament.

Page 24 - DANIELL. With Plates. Two Volumes. Octavo. 32s. On Thunder Storms, and on the Means of Protecting Buildings and Shipping against the Effects of Lightning. By Sir W. SNOW HAEEIS, FRS 10s. 6d. Connexion of Natural and Divine Truth. By BADEN POWELL, MA, FRS, Professor of Geometry, Oxford. 9s. Undulatory Theory as applied to the Dispersion of Light.

Page 8 - Esq. LIFE DEPARTMENT.— The important advantages offered by the plan and constitution of the Life Department of this Society are : That Insurers are protected by a large invested Capital, upon which there is no Interest to pay, and for which no deduction of any kind is made ; which enables the Directors to give the whole of the Profits to insuring Members. That the Profits are divided annually amongst all Members of five years' standing, and applied towards reducing Life Insurance to the lowest...